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From the University of Georgia News Service: Dog owners and veterinarians have long relied on a mix of limited data and anecdotal evidence to assess which breeds are at risk of dying from various conditions, but a new University of Georgia study provides a rar

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From the University of Georgia News Service: Dog owners and veterinarians have long relied on a mix of limited data and anecdotal evidence to assess which breeds are at risk of dying from various conditions, but a new University of Georgia study provides a rar

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer supports creating a domestic partner registry and wants to team up with his Orange County government counterpart, Mayor Teresa Jacobs, to create one primarily for same-sex couple who can't marry. The registries are billed as a way to g

Smokers can get a big discount on a potentially life-saving test through a pilot program designed to detect lung cancer sooner. The screening program at MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando is based on recent findings that CT scans can detect lung cancer sooner t

The nonprofit Center for Multicultural Wellness and Prevention in Orlando is holding a health fair Saturday at the Central Florida Fair and Exposition Park. Community health centers and clinics participating in the 10th annual Caribbean Health Summit will prov

Universal Orlando has secured rights to the phenomenally successful Harry Potter stories and will build a themed area of rides, shops and restaurants called "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter" at Islands of Adventure.
Universal, author...

During the past two years, more than 70 Florida child-welfare workers have been caught falsifying records -- lying about their on-the-job efforts to protect children, according to state and county records reviewed by the Orlando Sentinel.
As a...

His daughter's words roared in his head.
They killed him! They killed him!
Not the boy who wanted to be a Marine like his dad.
Crash. His fist found the nearest wall.
Not the young poet.
Crash.
Not the leatherneck who caught a slug in his left...

Lots of questions and comments from you guys lately. So here goes …
Scott, I wanted to pen a letter to Bill McCollum and was wondering what you call the attorney general. — Ross
Well, I call him worthless. But the formal salutation...

In an ornate, late-19th-century building on downtown Orlando's historic Church Street, a trendy Spanish tapas bar and restaurant is abuzz with tourists and locals. Upbeat rhythms from Seville fill the air.
But Emilio San Martín says there is a...

Cpl. Carl Derks says deploying overseas is old hat.
Derks, 23, left Thursday with 17 other U.S. Marines reservists of Company A, 6th Motor Transportation Battalion, 4th Marine Logistics Group for a stop in Camp Pendleton, Calif, with an eventual...

In Earth, the first film from Disney's new documentary unit, Disneynature, the studio serves up a sort of nature documentary's greatest hits, a film that covers every corner of the natural world, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, jungles to deserts....

Two men and a woman were charged Sunday with first-degree murder in the death of a teenage girl whose partially decomposed body was found in an east Orange County pond last winter.
Orange County Sheriff's Office investigators charged the three in the...

Four teens — one of them 15 — were arrested Wednesday on a charge of felony murder in a deadly shooting that started as a robbery, Orange County investigators said.
Kalvin Beazer, 17, was found wounded about 4:20 p.m. Sunday on a sidewalk near Edgewood...

Crossing Over is what happens when you try to tell a story from all sides in the debate over illegal immigration. A watchable, sometimes moving, sometimes infuriating blend of grounded melodrama and risible self-righteousness, it will win no friends in...

An earlier version of this story incorrectly described the survival rates of orca calves in captivity vs. the wild. SeaWorld said that the one-year survival rate for newborn killer whales in its marine parks is higher than the rate for orcas in the wild...

Police this morning identified Brandon Wafer as the man shot to death Saturday in the Holden Heights neighborhood.
Orlando police found Wafer on the corner of Avondale Avenue and Grand Street at 5:21 p.m. on April 25. Records show police responded to the...

I have a Pensacola tar ball on my desk. It looks like a piece of fudge sprinkled with powdered sugar.
But put enough of them in the white sand, and the beach looks like a litter box.
This is terrible. Here we were, minding our own business, when BP...

First Baptist Church of Orlando has come to serve Central Florida the way the Washington National Cathedral serves the nation: It's a place where folks of all faiths can gather to grieve over a public tragedy.
Today, First Baptist will be the site of a...